The Ork kingdom was the most prosperous demihuman nation in the west, even though they were seen as enemy of Holy empire and High elvish empire between which they find themselves. The reson for this were their trade connections with the Dwarven council state in Snowy mountains Balgom merchant union and Astenna kingdom. Although niether of them recognized the country (except for Balgom who doesn't care as long as there is a lot of money to make), the elvish slaves Ork kingdom provided to them, made them quite willing to cooperate to some extent.
The king of the Ork kingdom, Gaban Garret Ogur, was not a stupid man. He could even be called genius by Ork standards. Using former Ogre demon lords towns with strong magical barriers as strongholds and while his politic of all that aren't orks are slaves of the crown, made him not really popular, after taking over the most important places in the kingdom, turned the tides on the remaining nobles of his kingdom, creating strong autocracy. Following that he took his army and lead attacks in Fallboar city union, where he took people of entire villages prisoners and selled them as slaves to eastern countries. To this end, was really helpfull his connection to Balgom Merchant union who always took side of those who paid the most. The slave trade was going splendidly and that was when he came up with a new plan.
"Let's declare war on the Small ogre kingdom. Ogres may be stronger then orks, but we have numbers on our side! We can destroy them and take them prisoners. We still have the ogres that were captured in last war lead by my father. We can sell them for as much money as the elves!"
The truth was, that the attacks on Fallboar city union, which was vasal state of the High elvish empire was getting harder and harder, meaning the elf slave trade may run dry in a few years.
This all was observed by his single daughter, Galulu Gerba Ogur. While she was born from the first queen, an ork just like her father, Galulu was not looking like one.
All orks, no matter of their lineage, are always orks. Meaning they all look like boars on two legs. Galulu on the other hand, looks completly like elf and beautiful elf at that. And to not make her unpleasant to look at, her father ordered her to cover her body from head to toe in clothes.
She was an unknown species born from ork for the first time ever, although there were two simmilar girls to her in ducal families of the north, but that's not important now.
"Urgh... this is stupid," Galulu sighed and left the room and went to her private room, which was the least decorated room in the entire castle. It could be said that it was like a golden cage.
"Brother Guruk left for the Small ogre kingdom with only five thousand soldiers. That's underestimating our enemy... although, should they be our enemy?"
"Princess, please leave this until you enter your room. All walls have ears," her knight Haguron whispered.
"I don't care, it's just a matter of time before they decide to throw me out or worse anyway. Right now it important to be ready for any unforseen things happening."
Truth being told, all her brothers and sisters were already planning to dispose of her, but Galulu was already aware of it and planned a counter attack.
What she wasn't aware of, though, was that soon, she will be bowing to a new monster, that would be even more scarier then any monster in this world and even her parents would look like puppies to him.
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Her name? Her mother was calling her Yama, meaning 'ugly' in Ogre language. The girl with this name was despised as half ogre and half human by her own people. Of course there were some people who didn't, but they were afraid to go against her father and step-mother, the first queen.
Yama was child of human slave that the ogre king was beating his frustrations on. And as child of slave, and human at that, she had no standing at the royal court of the Small ogre kingdom.
"Happy birthday... me... sniff... who... who would... have thought... that I would still be here now..." Yama started crying in her room (prison cell) of the palace. She was constantly abused by her family, and even the servants. She had to work for her share of food, which usually started to rot at the time she recieved it, making her develop ability called [Foul eater]. This ability made her immune to bad status effects she could recieve from food, which in a way made her also immune to being poisoned. Which came in cluch a few times already.
"To think... that I would be here eighteen years later... I hate this," she lamented her fate while drinking her soup (colored smelly water).
Suddenly, there was a knock on the doors, making her panic. She instantly gobbled up the remaining soup and prostrated herself on the ground in mere seconds before the doors swung open.
"So there you are, trash," a harsh male voice that sounded to be just a tad bit older then hers entered the room.
"Y-your majesty—" Yama started to speak, but was instantly silenced by a boot that landed on back of her head, making her two small horns dig into the stone paved room under the impact.
"Huh?! Who allowed you to speak to me you trash?! I'm first born prince and you are just a rag on the floor, you understand?!" He started kicking her to beat his frustration, like their father was doing to her mother when she was still alive.
"I-I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" she cried out as her head was bashed against the cold floor.
"Fuuuu... this helped me a little... well, back to topic why I came here. The ork kingdom declared war on us. You should be happy about this. If anything goes south, you will get to live with the orks! Aren't you glad? I just happened to hear this from mother," the prince smiled as he stomped on her hand making it break under his weight. Yama, who was used to his beating already made only weak response, which resulted in one last kick in her abdomen before the prince left.
"Y-yes... I am... I am happy!" Yama cried as she imagined how she would be treated by the orks.
'I... will be raped until I explode with their filth... sniff... why... why do I have to always suffer...'
Yama remained on the floor even after the prince left. As she was lying down on the floor, her second skill [Self-healing] kicked in and she started to restore her bruises and broken bones, albeit painfully.
She looked out of her iron bar strenghtened window that was too high for her to look out from so only thing she could see was blue cloudless sky with just few occasional birds flying around.
Suddenly a strong wind blew from the window making her body ease a little. But, at the same moment, there was a screech and Yama frightenly looked at the doors.
And what she saw, was slight opening. 'Did he... forgot to lock the doors?'
In that moment, something shifted in Yama. 'I have to get away from here... even if I became food for monsters, or I'm taken by demon lord, anything is better then this!'
Yama rised on her scars filled legs and slowly walked to the doors. She took a glance and found out that there was no one in the hall. 'It's not... a trap is it?'
She entered the hall and closed the doors behind her. She walked around another cells and headed out to the courtyard. While remaining in the shadows, she walked to the stable, where wolf monsters, called Winter wolves were kept.
"Hi guys... it's me," she said in weak voice as she welcomed the wolves. The wolves were happy to she the girl who was usually feeding them and they welcomed her.
"I need to get away, can you please help me?" she bowed deeply.
"Waff." One of the wolves, and incidentaly, their leader with silverish blue fur and black horn on her forehead, a sign of evolved species called Blizzard wolf, walked to Yama and licked her face.
"Thank you, Thank you, I'm forever grateful," she held the wolf's head in her weak arms and plant a kiss between her eyes.
The wolf allowed her to seat herself on her back and run out from the stable. With hers mighty roar, she made the ogres in her way faint and followed that by using wind magic to break through gates into the town. The wolf ran with wind at her back through the city and before anyone could even dream of catching them, she left the town and headed to north-east.
'I have to survive... I will never return here!' with this resolution, Yama, the only princess of the Small ogre kingdom left the country for the Snowy mountains.